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Eas<p>Muscular mole man receiving posing guidance by Pikachu</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pikachu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pikachu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ガチャ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pokemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pokemon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plushie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plushie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gacha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gacha</span></a></p>
DimaLink<p>Scilly shrew – dweller of the abandoned garden</p><p>Scilly shrew. It is such a small creature. As a shrew. As a little mouse. Such kind. And, also, good and kind. It does not make a passages underground. And, use what exists, already. Easily, it can live near in a garden nearby. Or, in the field. Lots of places, where this little animal can live.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/little" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>little</span></a> animals <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scillyshrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scillyshrew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/field" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>field</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abandonedgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abandonedgarden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yourfriend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yourfriend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/summer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>summer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highgrass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highgrass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mole</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>You might as well substitute "magic" for "artificial intelligence" in this sentence.</p><p>"What we're able to tell is that there are really small changes in the eye that we probably wouldn't pick up using your standard optometry or ophthalmology tests but that taking those images and being able to use artificial intelligence may be able to give you an idea of a person's risk for dementia."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DrAshleighBarrettYoung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrAshleighBarrettYoung</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559118/researchers-uncover-link-between-eye-health-and-dementia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/national/559118</span><span class="invisible">/researchers-uncover-link-between-eye-health-and-dementia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"Chatbots are not thinking machines. They won’t even be the ancestors of thinking machines."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/LindaMcIver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LindaMcIver</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://adsei.org/2024/06/27/the-little-chatbot-that-couldnt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">adsei.org/2024/06/27/the-littl</span><span class="invisible">e-chatbot-that-couldnt/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBots</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"What a world we live in: AI hallucinated packages are validated and rubber-stamped by another AI that is too eager to be helpful."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FerossAboukhadijeh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FerossAboukhadijeh</span></a>, CEO, Socket, 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_</span><span class="invisible">code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"... AI code assistants invent package names. In a recent study, researchers found that about 5.2 percent of package suggestions from commercial models didn't exist, compared to 21.7 percent from open source or openly available models.</p><p>Running that code should result in an error when importing a non-existent package. But miscreants have realized that they can hijack the hallucination for their own benefit."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ThomasClaburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasClaburn</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_</span><span class="invisible">code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AICoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AICoding</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@worik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>worik</span></a></span></p>
Strypey<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://timeloop.cafe/@alienghic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alienghic</span></a></span> <br>&gt; they really should put the warning at the top</p><p>At least Brave are a) transparent about the answer being algorithmically-generated, b) giving a warning about potential inaccuracies, c) giving links to the sources the algorithm is drawing from, and d) giving a normal list of search results underneath, so you can ignore the algorithmic answer. That's a huge improvement over what most companies deploying a Trained <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> are doing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brave</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"One of the things that weirdly happens with the discourse around AI is; this future promise is increasingly mistaken for existing capability. So when we keep saying let's prepare by reshaping our infrastructure to accommodate AI, we're asking to reshape this infrastructure for a hypothetical future. And that hastens the conditions for that future, regardless of whether it ever arrives."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ErykSalvaggio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErykSalvaggio</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://techpolicy.press/doge-and-the-united-states-of-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techpolicy.press/doge-and-the-</span><span class="invisible">united-states-of-ai</span></a></p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicPolicy</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@worik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>worik</span></a></span> <br>This video by Ryan George, posted today, pretty much sums up the unimpressive performance of current "AI" when it tries to report knowable facts;</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-t4XFYjR4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-t4XFYjR</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RyanGeorge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RyanGeorge</span></a></p>
DimaLink<p>Little elephant in a mole`s hole</p><p>And this is drawing based on Rolo to the rescue (MegaDrive). Little elephant is walking in the mole`s hole. It was a big hole. Mole was digging and he dig to some new places! Some passage. To some unknown place! And nobody knows where is mole now! Little elephant is worrying and he goes to see</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pixelart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2dart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2dart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/positive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>positive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/littleanimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>littleanimals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/littleelephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>littleelephant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/friend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tinytoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tinytoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/16bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>16bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>(3/3)</p><p>"... the belief that AGI can be realized is harmful. If the power of technology is overestimated and human skills are underestimated, the result will in many cases be that we replace something that works well with something that is inferior.."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RagnarFjelland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RagnarFjelland</span></a>, 2020</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0494-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-049</span><span class="invisible">4-4</span></a></p><p>This is what's happening, eg government thinking that replacing human judges with Trained MOLEs allows them to cut costs *and* get more "rational" judgments. It doesn't do either.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@billbennett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>billbennett</span></a></span>'s 2021 piece on AI hype references a paper by Ragnar Fjelland entitled Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized. Here's a permanent link to it;</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0494-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-049</span><span class="invisible">4-4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RagnarFjelland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RagnarFjelland</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>I find it amazing how unwilling people are to accept that current "<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>" tech (including the "LLM" tech that I call <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> Training) is not intelligent, by any meaningful definition of the word. The nonsense arguments they use to wriggle out of this conclusion are nothing if not creative.</p><p>Most common is the consensus reality wriggle; more people talk as if they think Trained MOLEs are intelligent, therefore they are. So if most people think perpetual energy is possible, then it is? Nope.</p><p>(1/?)</p>
Strypey<p>"... the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched an international conversation about how generative artificial intelligence—i.e., AI capable of producing text, images, video, and more—could transform our lives."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ZeveSanderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZeveSanderson</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SolomonMessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolomonMessing</span></a>,<br> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/JoshuaATucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoshuaATucker</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/misunderstood-mechanics-how-ai-tiktok-and-the-liars-dividend-might-affect-the-2024-elections/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brookings.edu/articles/misunde</span><span class="invisible">rstood-mechanics-how-ai-tiktok-and-the-liars-dividend-might-affect-the-2024-elections/</span></a></p><p>The lie that this artificial paint-by-numbers involves "intelligence" has been repeated constantly by the industry hype machine. It's worrying when even academics uncritically parrot this lie.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Joshua Yuvaraj, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, was interviewed on RNZ yesterday, about the degree to which copyright law might be used to prevent scraping of the open web by <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> Trainers;</p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018981590/what-can-writers-do-about-their-work-being-used-to-train-ai-models" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/</span><span class="invisible">nights/audio/2018981590/what-can-writers-do-about-their-work-being-used-to-train-ai-models</span></a></p><p>As Cory Doctorow noted back in 2023;</p><p>"In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how</span><span class="invisible">-to-think-about-scraping/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RNZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RNZ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZCIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZCIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/JoshuaYuvaraj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoshuaYuvaraj</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/scraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scraping</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>However, until such time as we can compile and run our own <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> on our own hardware, completely independent of the entities that developed the code and weights for them, they remain toys. Just like Free Code Linux and *BSD kernels were until they could be independently compiled on commodity hardware and OS.</p><p>Unless and until we get to that place, increased use of Trained MOLEs just hands over more of our power to whoever controls the hardware they're "trained" and run on.</p><p>(3/3)</p>
Strypey<p>"We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project, which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating similar content without AI."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SayashKapoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SayashKapoor</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ArvindNarayanan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArvindNarayanan</span></a>, Dec 2024</p><p><a href="https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-</span><span class="invisible">78-election-deepfakes</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a></p>
William McAusland<p>Bestial Human Mole <br>Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman</p><p>With their velvety fur, tiny eyes, squat builds, and overlarge shovel-like hands, bestial human moles are inoffensive, but this belies the fact that they are aggressive, constantly hungry omnivores who prefer a diet of meat.<br><a href="https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">outlandarts.com/expansionrules</span><span class="invisible">.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/mole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mole</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/moleman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moleman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/rodent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rodent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/beast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beast</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/bestial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestial</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/manimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manimal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/bestialhuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestialhuman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/characters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>characters</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/noaiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noaiart</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/williammcausland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>williammcausland</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/wasteland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wasteland</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/mutantepoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutantepoch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/apocalyptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apocalyptic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/expansionrules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expansionrules</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/postapocalyptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postapocalyptic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/themutantepoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>themutantepoch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/outlandsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outlandsystem</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/outlandarts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outlandarts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/mutants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/mutant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutant</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/epoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epoch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/inkartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inkartist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/Kamloopsartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kamloopsartist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/apocalyptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apocalyptic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a> like <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/gammaworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gammaworld</span></a>
 <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/humanoidanimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanoidanimal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/roleplayinggame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roleplayinggame</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/characterdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>characterdesign</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"DataPeak is transforming the way businesses manage their data. Our intuitive, no-code platform empowers every team member to automate workflows, analyze data, and unearth actionable insights—whether you're tech-savvy or new to the data game and bid farewell to depending on software developers or data scientists."</p><p><a href="https://www.factr.me/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">factr.me/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Yes, instead of the work of developers and scientists, which can be documented and repeatable, you want to depend on the work of a Trained <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> 🤦‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Outsourcing to consultants might be cheaper when they know you could get the work done in-house, and price their time accordingly. But what if you can't? What if your organisation has become totally dependent on outside consultants to even understand the job, let alone carry it out? Then they can charge what they want.</p><p>The same is true whether the consultant is a human specialist, or a Trained MOLE marketed as an "AI" specialist.</p><p>(2/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MOLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MOLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>